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American judge and railway and mining executive
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80 years old stroke on April 23, died on 24th director of Cleveland & Mahoning Valley; Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toldeo; K&M Railway, Toledo & OHio Central Railway; Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway; New York, Chicago, & ST Louis; CC&I Railway Canadian Coooper Co., Anglo-American Iron Co., both canadaian companies Ontario Central Railway Judge Stevenson Burke Is Dead Plain Dealer April 25, 1904 1, 2
Edmund Stevenson Burke Sr. | |
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| Born | November 26, 1826 |
| Died | April 24, 1904 (aged 77) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
one of the founders of the Cleveland Bar Association [1]
judge of court of common pleas in Lorain County for several years relocated to Cleveland in 1869 and formed a legal practice with F.T. Backus and E.J. Estep. "one of the most successful coroproation lawyers who ever practices at the Cleveland bar" [2]
formed a law firm in 1863 with Judge Jonathan Edwards Ingersoll and William B Sanders (Burke, Ingersoll & Sanders) after Sanders was appointed to the bench, formed a firm with Ingersoll and his son, A.F. Ingersoll (Burke & Ingersoll) [3]
along with Jeptha Wade,he provided the money for the construction of the first building owned by the Cleveland School of Art [4]
"one of the really great lawyers of Ohio during the last century"
"standing among the foremost lawyers of his day in the nation"
born Nov 26, 1826 in St. Lawrence County, New York
moved to North Ridgeville, Lorain County, Ohio in 1834
a precocious student, learned to read at the age of six and was reading Pope at the age of eight
this was the frontier, and the family were poor
educated in the public schools
became a teacher at the age of 17
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1846 entered Ohio Wesleyan University, did not finish
studied law privtely
admitted to the bar in 1848 at the age of 22
first law partner was Horace D. Clark
within four yeras, his was the largest law practice in Lorein County
almost every case that went to the Ohio Supreme Court from Lorain county had him on one side of the other
"one of inudstry, ceaseless labor, continuous progress an dimpairing health"
elected to Court of Common Pleas of the Fourth Judicial CDistrict, holding it from Feb 1862 to Jan 1869
resigned halfway through his second term to resume private practice
argued frequently before the Ohio Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court after moving to Cleveland
"there was no man in Ohio more prominent as a corporation layer or executive than Judge Burke,"
from 1872 to 1880, general counsel and iector of Cleveland & Mahoning Valley Railway, and also president
From 1875 to 1881, general counsel and directo of the CCCI, and presidne tin 1886
from 1881 to 1886 president of the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toldeo Railway, and VP of the Indianapolis & St Louis Railway
After 1886, president of the Toledo & Ohil Central and the Kanwhat & Michigan, and from1894 to his death president of the Cnetral Ontariio Railway
also a director of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day, the Cincinnati, hamilton * Indianapolis, and the New York, CHicago & Stl Louis
was legal counsel in some of the most important railway consolidations of his time'notably, was the moving force in the amalgamtion of the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo Railroad
for William Vanderbilt, he conducted the negotiations that let Vanderbil purhchase the New York, Chicago & STl Lous Railway.
sotckholder and president of the Cnaadian Copper Company, owner of the largest nickel mines in the world,
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married Parthenia Poppleton, daughter of Rev. Samuel Poppleton of Richand County Ohio on April 28, 1849
she died April 7, 1878
married Ella M. Southworth of Clinton, New York, oldest of Henry C. Beebe, on June 22, 1882
Presbyterian
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